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Today is
Thursday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2013. There are 292 days left in the year.

Highlights in history

• On
March 14, 1923, President Warren G. Harding became the first chief executive to
file an income-tax return, paying a tax of $17,990 on his $75,000 salary.

• In
1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that
revolutionized America’s cotton industry.

• In
1932, photography pioneer George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Co., died by
his own hand at age 77 in Rochester, N.Y.

• In
1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby (above) guilty of murdering Lee Harvey
Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (The
conviction and death sentence later were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)

• In
1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved to a permanent memorial site
at Arlington National Cemetery.

• In
1980, a LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw,
killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.

•
Ten years ago: Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11
months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley (above). (Blake
later was acquitted at trial.)

•
Five years ago: Protests led by Buddhist monks in Tibet turned violent, leading to
an extensive crackdown by China’s military.

•
One year ago: President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, hosted a White House
state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha. Earlier, the two
leaders announced that NATO forces would hand over the lead combat role in Afghanistan to Afghan
forces in 2013 as the United States and its allies aimed to get out by the end of 2014.

Thought for today

“The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.”
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English novelist (1826-1887)